About this Theme

The Twenty Fifteen theme is still young in age, and yet, it has managed to receive downloads of nearly 250k. It’s simple, it’s sleek, and it’s easy to configure — thus adding to its popularity.

This theme, though seemingly simple in design boasts some tantalizing features that make it a great theme for your blog.

Twenty Fifteen: The WordPress Theme with 7 Amazing Features You Just Can’t Ignore

The Twenty Fifteen theme is perfect for bloggers and photographers looking to share their stories and tall tales online. And it lays claim to a few great features that could make it perfect for your own site.

1. Simplicity at its finest

In a day and age where life both online and off is bombarded with all kinds of clutter, it’s always nice to find something that sticks to the simple side of things. The Twenty Fifteen WordPress theme claims a lot of whitespace to make sure that the overall theme holds to its clean look.

2. Responsive and Mobile Friendly

If you didn’t think a responsive website was important before, then you likely know now. Google has made it so that only mobile friendly sites will appear in mobile searches, and it’s becoming readily evident that they want all sites to start using responsive and mobile ready themes. Thankfully, Twenty Fifteen is both so there is no need to worry in that regard.

3. Gorgeous Gallery

Though some may not put a lot of stock in what a theme’s gallery output will look like, many are looking for a theme that can handle creating beautiful galleries. Twenty Fifteen can easily create a masonry style gallery layout, and lightbox functionality is built right into the theme so viewing the images in a larger size is a non-issue.

4. Multiple Color Options

If you don’t like the color of white filling up your website, then you can change that. Thanks to some color customization options, you can change the color scheme of you site:

Blue

Black

Purple

Red

and Yellow

5. Content First Design

The static sidebar is placed to the left of your website and doesn’t make much room for clutter (which can be an excellent thing if we had anything to say about it.) That means that the lack of overall clutter on puts all the content of the theme and you site at the forefront.

6. Nice and Tidy Sidebar

Speaking of the sidebar, the placement of it and the header lend to the overall tidy feeling that the theme promotes. It does make room for a few widgets and is static which means that you won’t be staring and endless yards of black space while reading a longer post or page; it scrolls with the rest of the site.

7. Built with Solid Code

Since the theme is built by the team behind WordPress.org, you can rest easy knowing that the theme is built with top-notch code. This may not seem like the biggest deal, but trust us — this is definitely a big deal.

Overall, the 2015 theme is clean, elegant, easy to use, and easy on the eyes. However, many who wish to choose this theme want to be able to make it a look a bit more… like them.

As we’ve already covered, the theme is clean layout and design also comes with a few customization options, but they’re very limited.

But why limit yourself when you can make the Twenty Fifteen theme come to life and just as unique as you are.

Customizing the Twenty Fifteen Theme

If you’re looking to take your Twenty Fifteen theme up a notch but you have no idea how to do that, then you’re in luck because we just made that a whole lot easier.

While you could spend hours looking up CSS on Google and trying to learn all the code needed in order to change something as seemingly simple as font size, you don’t have to. You could… but why do that when a quick click or two of your mouse will do the same in a fraction of that time.

Our unique plugin, CSS Hero, gives you control of the vast majority of editable CSS elements so that you can change just about anything on the theme. Including, but not limited to:

Background color (you can even easily place an image as the background)

Font color and size of the body, heading tags, links, menu, and site title

The hover color of links

There quite a bit more you can do with CSS Hero to make your site. Want to see it in action? Just click the button below and give the plugin a test drive. Have any questions? Feel free to reach out.

If you use (or plan to use) this Theme...

CSS Hero can help you deeply and quickly customize the Twenty Fifteen Theme, solving some common issues like:

How to customize fonts in the Twenty Fifteen WordPress Theme, to make font biggers or change typeface for titles and header texts

How to change CSS background image on the Twenty Fifteen WordPress Theme and build background fades

How to change colors and styles on Twenty Fifteen WordPress Theme

How to change size of page width

How to change CSS style of top navigation buttons

Customize the CSS style of navigation menu on the Twenty Fifteen Theme